Four-Year-Old Chokes, Dies At School, DISD Says Staff Responded Quickly

Crisis counselors were sent to Mt. Auburn Elementary School in east Dallas Friday morning. The group of counselors were available to meet with children, after a student died after choking on food while eating a school lunch. Four year old Manny Ramirez was a pre-kindergarten student at the school. Cafeteria workers responded to the child’s choking. The school’s nurse administered abdominal thrusts to dislodge food stuck in the boy’s air pathway. Ramirez collapsed. District officials said CPR was performed until a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic team arrived.